Not Just a Victim: The Child as Catalyst and Witness of Contemporary Africa
Edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Catrien Notermans and Erik van Ommering
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Biographical note
Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Ph.D. (Amsterdam 2001) is associate professor and senior researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam. She specializes in Africa and South West Indian Ocean studies. Dr Evers’ research covers the anthropology of children, migration, slavery, memory and cognition, natural resource management, and sustainable development.
Catrien Notermans, Ph.D. (Nijmegen 1999) is an anthropologist working as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her fields of interest include religion (African Christianity, pilgrimage, witchcraft, Hinduism, material religion) and kinship (polygyny, fosterage, transnational kin networks).
Erik van Ommering is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam, where he attained his M.Sc. in 2007. His research focuses on children’s experiences of primary education in settings of violent conflict. The regional focus of his study is Lebanon.
Catrien Notermans, Ph.D. (Nijmegen 1999) is an anthropologist working as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her fields of interest include religion (African Christianity, pilgrimage, witchcraft, Hinduism, material religion) and kinship (polygyny, fosterage, transnational kin networks).
Erik van Ommering is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam, where he attained his M.Sc. in 2007. His research focuses on children’s experiences of primary education in settings of violent conflict. The regional focus of his study is Lebanon.
Readership
All those interested in the anthropology of children, child-oriented research methods, African studies, and children experiences of kinship, work, caring, health, migration, conflict.
Table of contents
Contents
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ vii
Ethnographies of Children in Africa: Moving beyond Stereotypical Representations and Paradigms ........... 1
Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Catrien Notermans & Erik van Ommering
1 Bending the Generational Rules: Agency of Children and Young People in ‘Child-Headed’ Households ..... 21
Diana van Dijk
2 Using a “Kids Club Method” to Understand Experiences of Children Orphaned by AIDS in North-Central Namibia ..... 43
Mienke van der Brug
3 Understanding Children’s Well-Being and Transitions Through the Life Course: A Case from Ethiopia ...... 69
Yisak Tafere
4 Kinning in the Imagination: Perceptions of Kinship and Family History among Chagossian Children in Mauritius ... 95
Sandra J.T.M. Evers
5 From Home to the Street: Children’s Street-ward Migration in Cape Verde ..................................... 125
Lorenzo I. Bordonaro
6 Gendered Work and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia: Exploring Working Children’s Perspectives .............. 147
Tatek Abebe
7 In Between the Netherlands and Morocco: ‘Home’ and Belonging of Dutch Moroccan Return Migrant and Abandoned Children in Northeast Morocco ................................................................................. 173
June de Bree, Oka Storms & Edien Bartels
8 The Learning Experiences of Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Children: A Model for Meaningful Learning ..... 197
Cilel Smith
9 Reconceptualising Child Protection Interventions in Situations of Chronic Conflict: North Kivu, DRC ......... 223
Claudia Seymour
10 Agency, Resilience and the Psychosocial Well-Being of Caregiving Children: Experiences from Western Kenya ..................................... 247
Morten Skovdal
About the Authors .......................................................................................... 269
Index ................................................................................................................ 273
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ vii
Ethnographies of Children in Africa: Moving beyond Stereotypical Representations and Paradigms ........... 1
Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Catrien Notermans & Erik van Ommering
1 Bending the Generational Rules: Agency of Children and Young People in ‘Child-Headed’ Households ..... 21
Diana van Dijk
2 Using a “Kids Club Method” to Understand Experiences of Children Orphaned by AIDS in North-Central Namibia ..... 43
Mienke van der Brug
3 Understanding Children’s Well-Being and Transitions Through the Life Course: A Case from Ethiopia ...... 69
Yisak Tafere
4 Kinning in the Imagination: Perceptions of Kinship and Family History among Chagossian Children in Mauritius ... 95
Sandra J.T.M. Evers
5 From Home to the Street: Children’s Street-ward Migration in Cape Verde ..................................... 125
Lorenzo I. Bordonaro
6 Gendered Work and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia: Exploring Working Children’s Perspectives .............. 147
Tatek Abebe
7 In Between the Netherlands and Morocco: ‘Home’ and Belonging of Dutch Moroccan Return Migrant and Abandoned Children in Northeast Morocco ................................................................................. 173
June de Bree, Oka Storms & Edien Bartels
8 The Learning Experiences of Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Children: A Model for Meaningful Learning ..... 197
Cilel Smith
9 Reconceptualising Child Protection Interventions in Situations of Chronic Conflict: North Kivu, DRC ......... 223
Claudia Seymour
10 Agency, Resilience and the Psychosocial Well-Being of Caregiving Children: Experiences from Western Kenya ..................................... 247
Morten Skovdal
About the Authors .......................................................................................... 269
Index ................................................................................................................ 273
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